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ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Lot 147

ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)

[Winter Sunrise], Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California, 1944

Closed5 April 2013

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USD 40,000

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
[Winter Sunrise], Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California, 1944
gelatin silver print, printed before 1963
signed in ink (on the mount); titled, negative notation '1-S-14' in ink and Carmel credit stamp (on the reverse of the mount)
image: 10 1/8 x 15 3/8in. (25.7 x 39cm.)
mount: 14 x 18in. (35.5 x 45.7cm.)

Specialist note

This is an early print of Adams' important photograph. The initials 'LP' (Lone Pine), carved in the hillside, which Adams found so intrusive, are clearly spotted out here. In later prints they vanish completely.